This week, Mr. Myke Healy touches on the excitement, opportunities and challenges of the rapidly evolving world of generative AI. At TCS since 2004, Mr. Healy is the assistant head of Senior School - teaching & learning.

Written by guest blogger, Myke Healy

On last week’s episode of The New York Time’s Hard Fork podcast – which focuses on new technology such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) – I was surprised by the host’s answer to an ethical dilemma. An online gig worker questioned whether he should disclose to paying clients that he simply completed assigned tasks using ChatGPT. Host Casey Newton gleefully encouraged capitalization on this arbitrage, predicting it would only last until employers realized (in three months? in six months?) that the work could be done without paying a human.

According to a recent survey conducted by McKinsey & Company – “How does Gen Z see its place in the working world? With trepidation” (American Opportunity Survey; October 19, 2022) – young adults in the age range of 18 to 24 are “more likely to have independent jobs or multiple jobs than older workers.” And, this demographic of young adults reportedly also has higher levels of doubt “about their eventual ability to either buy homes or retire.”

Yikes. That’s a lot of lemons.

This week, Grade 12 student-athletes, Jasmine De Pencier and Malinka Kwemo, share their thoughts on the importance of the girls rugby program at TCS and reflect on their team’s recent successes.

Written by guest bloggers, Jasmine De Pencier and Malinka Kwemo

Rugby is one of the most taxing sports. It takes the strongest athlete, both mentally and physically, to willingly step on a field where everyone’s goal is to bring you to the ground. This is also what makes it so special; you would only play rugby if you love it. That means that every player on the field, and every keen player on the bench waiting to get on, has a love for the sport beyond any fear of getting tackled. Rugby is a sport where the lows are low and the highs are high, but the game is always played with respect for everyone involved whether it be players, coaches or referees.

When you were a kid, did you think that if you jumped up in the air when you were flying in an airplane that you would be thrown backward and hit the back of the plane? That’s what I wondered, as a child. After all, my youthful logic seemed sound: if the plane was moving approximately 900 km/hr, and I was standing still (travelling at 0 km/hr), if I jumped up in the air, the speedy plane would travel under my feet and I would be thrown to the back of the aircraft.

Clearly, a future career in aviation or science was not looking promising for me at a very young age. Of course, what I learned was that both the plane and I would be travelling at 900 km/hr.